this is why i love this field, this is gonna make me cry somehow it's empirically reproducibly *possible* to improve baseline wellbeing by so many orders of magnitude that life is continually more beautiful than getting lost in music, MDMA, the cuddles of a first love, etc. but

it’s possible to walk around feeling like you have a wholesome crush on yourself and thats not even the ceiling of human wellbeing!!!!!!! crazy wtf

and it’s not just a philosophical or theological argument (even though i like both!) it’s completely empirical, we literally have a tractable mechanistic view of suffering/happiness https://t.co/97S6S7Av7t

it’s cool cuz this is a real empirically reproducible thing we can do mass-scale profound baseline wellbeing is within reach

i wonder how people like @nickcammarata or @RogerThisdell do IFS practices i think i've heard both of them talk about still doing parts work but like, whoa how are parts experienced if there is no inner voice or self? i'm probably misunderstanding something very curious

10-40hz simping is the cause of all yearning

dude imagine how fire it would be to just have @nickcammarata tweets on a shirt or whatever but with yummy yummy graphic design

oh shoot i should also put in some Local Optimality stuff in there

new sidequest idea: need to commission a risd student to make a TANHA IS THE CAUSE OF DUKKHA clothing brand ideas to put on a shirt/hat/hoodie: - ask me about tanha - ask me about vasocomputation - ask me about 10-40hz tensions that cause ~all suffering - ask me about jhanas -

first few pages of this draft are up at

im finally happy with how this project is going (im trying to write a meditation explainer) after talking to some RISD art students and many many friends at brown, i think im getting close to a sufficiently nonstupid flow/outline and also a sufficiently nice format/structure

wait this is a recurring thought ive had for at least 1-2 years now but i could never articulate it this well even when i tried to journal about it before thank god for twitter

then just use that money to do everything better

we just need wayyy better vibes/aesthetic for “fetters work” and maybe some better explanations and then just need some cool wholesome guy with high agency to organize the logistics be selective w the students + charge $20k-1m to reduce their suffering by 100x

> I no longer suffer from emotional experience. Dropping fetters four and five using inquiry practice [1] has been the greatest upgrade to my well-being. > Apparently suffering is still happening at this stage of the path, and dissolving later fetters will erode more subtle

> it's kind of like always having someone with me to hold space https://t.co/mbQ9ei0beG

it seems like we’re almost ready to make the tesla for souls nowadays a lot of ppl have gotten lots of suffering reduction in a relatively short timespan from “fetters work”

> We’re either in a world where there’s no good tools for radical and reliable positive psychological change if you put a lot of smart effort into it, or we’re living in a world where this is reliably possible. I think we’re in the latter banger https://t.co/ELQPzQmTpU

this is completely empirically possible already, but it has just statistically has taken a few thousand hours (same effort as a hard phd) unless youre lucky but new methods seem to be rly fruitful and take <500 hours (which is only like one college semester of workload!!)

sooner or later, i think we might have this for baseline suffering reduction / improving baseline wellbeing not just for temporary bliss states, but for improving baseline happiness by 10-1000x (maybe it will take some neuro/biotech to make it learnable in 7 days?? idk)

it turns out the best teachers allow us to learn wayyyy faster than what seems possible not just 10% or 50% faster, but like 10-1000x faster this screenshot is self portraits before/after 5 days it turns out we can also learn “bliss on demand” in a week (@jhanatech)